Furniture is a rich carrier of information and a cultural form. As a material production activity, furniture culture inevitably has a large number of categories and diverse styles. Moreover, with the development of society, the wave of style changes and updates will become faster and more frequent. Therefore, furniture culture inevitably reflects the following characteristics during its development process.

① Regional characteristics:

Different regional landforms, different natural resources, and different climatic conditions will inevitably lead to differences in human personality and form different furniture characteristics. In terms of the differences between the north and south of China, the north has vast mountains and plains, and northerners are simple and unrestrained, so the furniture is correspondingly large-scale, heavy, and stable. The south has beautiful mountains and rivers, and southerners are quiet and delicate, so the furniture is exquisite, soft, ingenious, and changeable. There is a saying about furniture design in the past: "Southern legs and northern hats." That is to say, northern cabinets are characterized by large lids and appear heavy, while southern furniture pursues changes in leg shapes and appears elegant. In terms of furniture color, the north prefers deep and solemn colors, while the south prefers light and fresh colors.

② Characteristics of the times:

Like the development process of human culture as a whole, the development of furniture also has its stages, that is, the furniture styles of different historical periods show different characteristics of furniture culture in different eras. The ancient times, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Romantic period, the modern period, and the postmodern period all show their own different styles and personalities.

In an agricultural society, furniture is handmade, so the style of furniture is mainly classical, either exquisitely carved or simple and unadorned, all leaving obvious handmade traces. In an industrial society, the production method of furniture is industrial mass production, and the style of the product is modern, with simple and straight shapes, almost no special decoration, mainly pursuing a kind of mechanical beauty and technological beauty. In contemporary information society, in developed countries, furniture has denied the design principles of modern functionalism and turned to focus on context and cultural semantics. Therefore, the style of furniture presents a diversified development trend. It needs to be modernized, reflect the lifestyle of contemporary people, reflect contemporary technology, materials, and economic characteristics, and also needs to be isomorphic and compatible with regions, nationalities, traditions, and history in the artistic language of furniture. From commonality to individuality, from single to diverse, furniture and indoor furnishings show strong personal colors, which is the characteristic of the times of current furniture.